JAY – Selectmen voted Tuesday to shorten the nomination process to allow for the election of a School Committee member. The seat was vacated by Joel Pike on Monday.

Nomination papers will be available Wednesday, June 20, and must be returned by Friday, July 6.

A new timeline for a revote on the school articles and the election of a School Committee member has been established. The revote will be held Aug. 21.

In another matter, Selectman Rick Simoneau asked residents owning property on Parker Pond Road about access to the great pond. He said he received a call about access and the person was told that they could park their vehicle and carry their kayaks to the pond.

The road leading to the pond, which is off the East Jay Road, is private property with the Livermore Falls Water District and Central Maine Power Co. having easement rights over the road.

The pond is used as an alternate drinking water source for the water district that serves customers in Jay and Livermore Falls.

Residents on the road posted the way a few years ago allowing people who get written permission to travel over it.

More than 370 people signed a petition asking selectmen to take all necessary steps to make Parker Pond Road a town way or recreational easement in 2004.

Voters had opted at least three times since 1958 to not close the road. In 1992, when the road closure was before residents again, it was discovered that the road was never accepted as a town road and withdrawn from a vote.

Raymond Paul and his son, Raymond Paul Jr., both said Tuesday that they had given people written permission to drive over the road, and it had worked for a while but they had to stop after people were yelling obscenities and making obscene gestures, and in general being disrespectful.

“We didn’t feel we should have to put up with people” being disrespectful, the elder Paul said.

The younger Paul now owns his father’s property, and there is a sawhorse barricade set up along the road on his property line that abuts Dick and Jeanne and Dick Sproul’s property.

People are allowed to park and walk on the road to the pond.

Dick Sproul said he and his wife are selling their house plus more than 159 acres and had given the town the first option to buy the property earlier this year. The price of the property is $350,000 that includes standing timber, Sproul said.

“It’s the best deal in town,” Sproul said.

Selectmen opted not to act on the offer in April, citing concerns about buying a house and land and taking it off the tax rolls, which Sproul reminded them about Tuesday.

“We are perfectly happy the way it is,” Sproul said. Kids park their bicycles at the cemetery and walk in, he added.

Sproul said he had two people interested in buying the property, but they would still consider an offer from the town and told them where to mail it.

He also said they did not want to sell an easement over the property.

The elder Paul said he agreed that residents should have access to the pond, the only one in Jay, but it would have to be another way unless they want to walk in.

Resident Pearl Cook said it is the property owners’ road, and they have children, and the town should be concerned with the safety of those children.

“It’s unfortunate those people have to ruin it for everyone. It’s disrespectful,” Selectman Amy Pineau Gould said.